Tsunade: Heh, I Won

Bullying the Princess of Konoha?

This was truly authentic.

Toji did not step in immediately. He merely watched silently from afar, intending to act only at the most dangerous moment.

He turned to Orochimaru and said, "I need to take care of something. Stay right here and don't wander off."

In the alley, three tall boys had cornered Tsunade against a wall, their tones arrogant. "Your hair looks like yellow potatoes. Ugly as hell."

"Don't think being the Hokage's granddaughter means you can push us around!"

"If my father didn't post missions in Konoha, you ninja would all starve to death!"

The three boys were the children of merchants and nobles from the Land of Fire. They had come to Konoha for amusement; the living conditions here were no worse than in the capital, and with so many ninja stationed here, safety was guaranteed.

Their favorite pastime was gambling at the dice shops.

By chance, they had met Tsunade.

After playing a few rounds and discovering that Tsunade was a gullible little lamb, they began waiting for her at the dice shop every week.

Tsunade did not disappoint them. Every week, she would sneak out to play dice one day, losing every single time and becoming their little cash cow.

The three had originally planned to go big today.

They wanted to turn this little lamb into a fat sheep they could squeeze for even more money.

But for some reason, Tsunade, who usually lost whenever she gambled, had suddenly won this time. Not only had she won back all the money she had lost before, she had also cleaned the three of them out.

Humiliated and enraged, the three suspected that Tsunade had been pretending to be weak all along.

After leaving the dice shop, they had followed her